Monday, March 6, 2017

Freezing cold. Iditarod. Sacrifice.

Friends and family!

It was another awesome and freezing week! It was super busy and seemedto fly by.

To start our investigators are doing awesome! We had an awesome lessonwith Mathew and Andrew on Wednesday and invited them to be baptizedthe 25th of March and they accepted! So we will be helping them worktowards that date now! Ryanne is doing great and still on track forthe 18th and we finished all the lessons yesterday! She super awesomebecause whenever we teach something she immediately makes the changes.

We had zone meeting this week and it was really good. We talked a lotof sacrifice. Bruce R McConkie has a really cool talk about it in theApril 1975 general conference. He says, "The law of sacrifice is thatwe are willing to sacrifice all that we have for the truth’s sake--ourcharacter and reputation; our honor and applause; our good name amongmen; our houses, lands, and families: all things, even our very livesif need be." And Joseph Smith said, “A religion that does not requirethe sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to produce thefaith necessary [to lead] unto life and salvation.” So withoutsacrifice we are nothing. Even the small things make a big difference.

Saturday we had the Iditarod ceremonial start that we got to help outat. If any of you remember this, I got to help out with this last yearand it was my first Saturday in the mission! It was cool because thisyear I got a super cool spot where it wasn't as much Manual labor!Haha but it was a good time and a lot of fun! And it was freezing thewhole time! I've never loved hand and feet warmers so much in my life!

And that was pretty much the coolest stuff that happened this week!Thank you for all that you do for me!

Cool fact for the week: I hit 19 months on my birthday! Double whammy

Love, Elder Tyler John Fawson

1 The north anchorage zone!2 Iditarod crew3-4 Iditarod!5- throwing up the U! Shout out to di and Nate!6 more Iditarod!